Police in Brandenburg, Germany have arrested a 17-year-old asylum seeker. He is believed to have been plotting a suicide attack. While German authorities are hedging on whether an attack was imminent, that the suspect was arrested by special forces is interesting. It points to a concern that the suspect was in possession of lethal weapons (possibly explosives, firearms or something else).

We shouldn’t be surprised by this news. In recent years, Germany has faced numerous attack plots from asylum-seeking jihadists.